Assay of methemalbumin at St. Luke's Health - Patients Medical Center
4600 E. Sam Houston Parkway South, Pasadena, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1407990088
$48.51
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$138.60
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$8.57 with TCHP vs $103.95 with MultiPlan — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| TCHP | Medicaid|All Plans | $8.57 | ↓ -82% |
| CHC | Medicaid|All Plans | $8.57 | ↓ -82% |
| Wellpoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $9.02 | ↓ -81% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|All Other Plans | $9.20 | ↓ -81% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $10.74 | ↓ -78% |
| CIGNA-HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|All Plans | $10.74 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $10.74 | ↓ -78% |
| HUMANA | Medicare|All Plans | $10.74 | ↓ -78% |
| UNITED | Medicare|All Plans | $10.95 | ↓ -77% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Plans | $10.95 | ↓ -77% |
| AMERIVANTAGE | Medicare|All Plans | $11.06 | ↓ -77% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $11.49 | ↓ -76% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $11.49 | ↓ -76% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STAR | $12.36 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $15.68 | ↓ -68% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $16.11 | ↓ -67% |
| Ambetter | Commercial|All Plans | $16.11 | ↓ -67% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $16.11 | ↓ -67% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $17.72 | ↓ -63% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $19.89 | ↓ -59% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $19.89 | ↓ -59% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $19.89 | ↓ -59% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $19.89 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Exchange | $20.41 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $25.61 | ↓ -47% |
| UNITED | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $28.14 | ↓ -42% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $28.26 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|Blue Premier | $35.01 | ↓ -28% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $38.64 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|HMO | $47.04 | ↓ -3% |
| BCBS-TX | Commercial|PPO | $55.10 | ↑ +14% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $83.16 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $90.09 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $90.09 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $94.25 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $97.02 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $97.02 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $103.95 | ↑ +114% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Assay of methemalbumin at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| HCA HOUSTON SOUTHEAST | PASADENA | not published | $8.84 – $44.60 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $88.81 | $12.00 – $133.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $88.81 | $9.02 – $111.01 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - COLLEGE STATION | College Station | $88.81 | $9.65 – $133.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CONTINUING CARE HOSPITAL | Temple | $88.81 | $8.00 – $133.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE EMERGENCY MEDICAL CENTER - CEDAR PARK | Cedar Park | $88.81 | $9.02 – $133.21 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER HILLCREST | Waco | $88.81 | $9.02 – $111.01 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MCLANE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | Temple | $88.81 | $9.02 – $133.21 |